Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Hawaii
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Yoruba Academy
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2829
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2017
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
103
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
谢谢
e dupe
How Are You?
你好吗？
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
晚安
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
晚上好
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
下午好
e kaasan
Good Morning
早上好
e kaaro
Please
请
Jowo
Sorry
遗憾
binu
Bye
再见
bye
I Love You
我爱你
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
原谅我
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Ede
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
320
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
cantonais
yoruba
German Name
Kantonesisch
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Yoruba people
Origin
17th century
4 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Western Sudanic
Branch
-
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Yorùbá
Language Position
149
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
yor
ISO 639 2/B
yue
yor
ISO 639 3
No data available
yor
ISO 639 6
yue
yor
Glottocode
cant1236
yoru1245
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating